The power of sun

While it’s an important topic, I won’t talk about sun as an energy source – although promoting renewable energy would be a very millennial thing to do… Nor will I go into excruciating detail about how we need the power of sun to produce basically everything we consume from fruit juice to bacon. Instead, I […]

Priorities

In our “professional” lives, be it work or studying, we learn to prioritize and we do our best to stick to it. We know what needs to be done, we know the deadlines and the importance of tasks and we organize ourselves accordingly. Unfortunately, we often forget to do the same for our life outside […]

Never enough for both(?)

There’s a quote by Ijeoma Umebinyuo called the Diaspora Blues that I find really captivating: “So, here you are, too foreign for home, too foreign for here. Never enough for both.” I feel like of all the quotes I shared in previous blog posts, this is the one that probably applies most to me – or at least that’s how […]

Nothing special needed

Whenever we are on a holiday or move somewhere new, we try to look for the unique, the extraordinary, the exceptional. We want to be amazed and wowed, we want our breath to be taken away, we want the most special adventures. We want to see the sights that are marked “compulsory” in travel books, […]